Abstract
A pervasive urban phenomenon in the Netherlands is the implementation of large-scale and ambitious city centre redevelopment projects to upgrade the functional structure and physical form. Within the context of national policy restrictions and incentives, city centre actors – i.e. local authorities, property actors and (organisations of) retailers – are mainly responsible for designing upgrading plans to make city centres appealing to mobile and fun-seeking consumers. In this chapter, the upgrading of the city centre in Enschede is critically discussed while focusing on the process of competition at the urban and regional level for shoppers and their spending. Upgrading projects are implemented to produce dissimilarities with other shopping centres in the city, with town centres surrounding the city as well as with other city centres – as a response to increasing similarities at the intra and inter-metropolitan level. In Enschede, the city centre actors intend to foster the urban economy through the implementation of an opportunistic redevelopment project, demonstrating the entrepreneurial stance in contemporary urban politics. Entrepreneurial conservatism, however, seems to produce similarities between city centres whereas city centre actors aim to achieve and claim urban dissimilarities.
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Spierings, B. (2009). Producing Urban (Dis)similarity: Entrepreneurial Governance, Consumer Mobility and Competitive Consumption Spaces: The Case of the Enschede Region. In: Arts, B., Lagendijk, A., Houtum, H. (eds) The Disoriented State: Shifts in Governmentality, Territoriality and Governance. Environment & Policy, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9480-4_7
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